Soooo. . . . The mainstream press is stumbling over itself with reports and innuendo about Joe Biden’s alleged mental infirmaties, not to mention general “fitness” for office, in spite of nearly four years of unprecedented economic growth, keen attention to US allies and the conflict in Ukraine, low inflation and rising incomes, among other achievements. In the process, they've managed to drag along a host of (usually unnamed) nervous Dem consultants and smart, sober-minded columnists who just can’t be optimistic about the president’s many advantages. No one knows why, other than it makes for good copy.
Meanwhile, from Bizarro World -- an endlessly more fascinating, perverse, and bone-crushingingly stupid planet -- we get the following, which passes the press by without so much as a “how do you do.” (From the July 2 Atlantic):
In an extended, extemporaneous aside during a speech in which he falsely claimed that the U.S. inflation rate exceeds 30 percent (it stands at 3 percent), and falsely asserted that rioters in Portland, Oregon; Minneapolis; and Seattle had been “ripping people apart and killing people” after the murder of George Floyd, Trump said, of green-energy advocates, “All they know is electric. . . . They want electric planes.”
Trump then looked up to the sky.
“What happens if the sun isn’t shining while you’re up in the air?”
. . . .
Trump appeared to be conflating solar-powered aircraft with new electric planes, a different technology altogether.
Trump’s argument was refuted by flummoxed aviation experts, including James Fallows, a pilot and longtime Atlantic writer. Fallows wrote on X, “Electric planes run ON BATTERIES. His question is like asking, ‘How can you use an iPhone if it’s dark outside.’”
He also claimed the Army wanted to develop and deploy electric-powered tanks:
Last September, at an appearance in California, Trump denounced the idea of using electric-powered tanks in combat: “They’re going electric-crazy,” Trump said, apparently referring to battery-power advocates in the Biden administration. “It doesn’t work. They want an all-electric army tank."
The Army, the branch of the military that deploys tanks, has no plans to use all-electric-powered tanks.
All of this, yet is Biden who is unfit for office, a drooling, incompetent, aged husk who “can't put two sentences together.” Got it.